Kisha Braithwaite, PhD, MSCR is a counseling psychologist and Fellow of the American Psychological Association. She is the Poussaint-Satcher Endowed Chair in Mental Health, and Associate Director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM). Also at MSM, Dr. Braithwaite is Professor and Director of Research & Scholarship for the Department of Psychiatry &Behavioral Sciences, and Professor in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Braithwaite is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the School of Medicine of Emory University.

Dr. Braithwaite earned undergraduate, masters, and doctoral degrees from Howard University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns HopkinsUniversity in both the School of Medicine and School of Public Health. She earned a Master of Science in Clinical Research degree from MSM. She has completed professional leadership development trainings at Brandeis University, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), American Psychological Association (APA), and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Prior to joining MSM, Dr. Braithwaite held positions atGeorgetown University, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Urban Health Institute,Children’s National Medical Center, and Evaluation and Research Associates, Inc.

Dr. Braithwaite serves on many national, regional, and local boards/committees; she is a reviewer for several academic journals; and she has received professional awards from various organizations and agencies. She has been awarded millions of dollars in research funding from public and private sources; co-edited four books—Black Women and Resilience: Power, Perseverance, and Public Health (State University of New York [SUNY] Press), Health Equity, African-Americans, and Public Health (American Public Health Association [APHA] Press), African American Women: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press) and Social Determinants of African American Men (Jossey-Bass). She has published several book chapters, numerous articles in peer-reviewed academic journals, and served as a guest co-editor for three academic journals-American Psychologist, Ethnicity and Disease and the Journal ofHealthcare for the Poor and Underserved. She currently serves on the editorial board for Health Psychology.

Dr. Braithwaite has provided numerous presentations at international, national, regional, and local professional conferences/meetings/symposiums/forums. Globally, she has studied and/or provided trainings in Greece, Italy, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Spain, and various Caribbean countries (St. Lucia, Jamaica, Barbados, Grenada, Cuba, Haiti, & U.S. Virgin Islands). Dr. Braithwaite has dedicated her career to encouraging mental health and well-being among ethnically and culturally diverse families through research, programmatic initiatives, and the development of innovative strategies for informing health policies. She has placed a special emphasis on addressing the needs of underserved and underrepresented populations that are often overlooked yet prevail in contributing to the myriad of mental health disparities.

She aims to: (1) promote excellence in community-based clinical and translational mental health research, (2) develop innovative programs that improve accessibility of individuals to comprehensive healthcare, and (3) develop culturally centered, gender specific, resilience-based prevention and intervention models for individuals at risk for depression.  

She is an advocate for the Lupus Foundation of America, Alvin Ailey American DanceTheater, and Delta Sigma Theta, Inc., A Public Service Sorority.

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Black Women and Resilience: Power, Perseverance, and Public Health

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Health Equity, African-Americans, and Public Health

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Psychology Today magazine blog: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/kisha-b-holden-phd-mscr-and-mb-gooden-dc-mph-cmt